Case history
Case history #1
A 14-year-old girl presents with a single generalised tonic-clonic seizure. She has no previous history of epilepsy. Neurological examination, including assessment of parietal lobe function and visual fields, is completely normal. Computed tomographic scan is performed and reveals a lesion suggestive of an arteriovenous malformation.
Case history #2
A 27-year-old man develops a sudden onset of headache shortly after taking cocaine in a nightclub. He collapses with a right-sided hemiplegia, and his level of consciousness rapidly deteriorates. On arrival in the hospital emergency department, he is in a coma, extending to pain, with no eye opening and no verbal response. His left pupil is fixed and dilated.
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